Radio: The New Suds

Sudsy daytime serials are easy targets for radio's detractors. But soap
operas go on & on because sponsors find them profitable. Last week, an
outlandish new jumble of fact & fancy called Wendy Warren and the News
(CBS, Mon.-Fri., 12 noon, E.D.T.) tried desperately to vary the
formula.

The new twist: CBS Reporter Douglas Edwards leads off with a
three-minute summary of the day's headlines. A girl reporter named
"Wendy Warren" (Actress Florence Freeman) follows him, shrills out 45
seconds of "women's news," promptly plunges into her tortured fictional
love life. By the...